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urn THE MORNING ASTORIAN, AJJTOIUA, OREGON.' SATURDAY, MAY 2, J908. I nis Last Job f At Burglary. lOriginai. Before I went to make au entrance Into the vnult o' the Tenth Xatlonnl bank Ellen gave uie a Ions talk. She Mid that our war of cettin' a livln was kllllu' her and I'd soon have our kids on my hands to take cure o till 1 got caught and juit lu prison; thou nnpya nave no one to loos after them The bovs would soon he In Jail. too. and a worse fate wan in store for the girls. But, what was I to do? N'ot aji oonest joo was open to me. But I needed all my nerve, am) after a kiss for her nod the kids I threw off the depression and In an hour was In the bank before the vault. I had set m.v dark lantern so that the bullseye shone on the spot I want ed to perforate and was about to an ply my drill when I heard a voice be- nind me say: "Do you think you can do It?' The words were spoken In the coolest possible tone, and coolness begets cool ness. I couldu't see behind me with out takln' up my lamp and briugln' It to bear ou the speaker, and before ! could do that and shoot I felt reason ably sure a bullet would come crashln' through me somewhere. So I never turns around at all, but begins to work my drill, remarkln' at the same time: , "It won't be any trouble at ail. I've done It often before." ' "Hold on." said the voice, a man's. "Are you artist enough to do the Job without injurm the door?" "In course." says I. "If you wanted ft done that way, why didn't you say 07 But It'll take longer." 'i "Pick the lock," said the voice, "be tween now and daylight, and I'll give jou a new crisp $50 bill." "Couldn't you make it a hundred T' I asks. I reckon my impudence must V took him flat aback, 'cause he didn't answer for a small whHe; then he says: "Fifty is all and more than I can apare. I'm only a clerk in the bank, and Tm sufferln nnder an attack o aonesty just now." I puts away my drill and begins to work with my Angers and my ears. talkln' with the feller sociable-like. It was very kind o' him to treat me so perllte. for I knowed he wouldn't be that a-way onless he had me covered and ready to enforce orders. Referrin to his last remark. I Bays: "I had that disease myself onct, but a wife and a couple o' kids cryln' for bread tnk it clean out o' me. Diseases require medicine, and sometimes the cure's worse than the disease. I gave myself a dose o' dishonesty for an anti dote, and the habit got fixed on me like takln' a drug." "But you kept the kids from atarvin'. I suppose. "That's what I've done so far, but if my, work gits a check for the matter o' ten years or so they're still liable to starvation. If I could a got through a few years more they'd be old enough to nil tneir own mouths." He didn't make any answer to this, and I kep on monkeyin' with the tum blers. Ilstcnin' to how they fell and mnKin np my mind what was the com bination. "What's the time?" I asked. "1 wo twenty-five," be said. "It doesn't begin to get light now till TEETH Without Plafit. The Old Reliable CHICAGO PAINLESS DENTISTS Cor. Commercial and Eleventh St. ASTORIA, ORE. Phone 3901 Headquarters PORTLAND, ORE. Are equipped to do all kinds of Dental work at very lowest prices. Nervous people and those anlicted with heart weakness may have no fear of the dental chair. 22 K. crown SIM Bridge work, per tooth.. 140 Gold fillings $1.00 up Silver fillings.. 50c to $1.00 Best rubber plate $800 Aluminum-line plate $20 to $15.00 These offices are modern through out We are able to do all work absolutely painless. Our success is due to uniform high grade work by gentlemanly operators having 10 to 15 years- experience. Vegetable Vapor, patented and used only by us for painless extraction of teeth, 50c A binding guarantee given with all work for 10 years. ..Exami nation and consultation FREE. Lady in attendance. Eighteen of fices in the United States. Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts., over Datuiger store. Absolutely Pure The only baking powder mado with Royal Grapo Cream of Tartar Ho Alum, No Lime Phosphate o'clock. Can you do it In that time?" , "ii i can ao it at ail" I heard somethln between a sigh and a grnnt. t "Is it very important Y 1 says. les, it is. I'm responsible for the vault behr' shut without anv one know. in' the combination. If wo can't get lu mere hy 0 o clock tomorrow uiornln' there'll be no end o trouble. I'll irPt flred, of course." "Don't worry.1" I savs. "I wouldn't nave sucn a perllte vounz trentltm&n fired for all there is inside. Just you stop talkin' to me for awhlle-it both ers me and I reckon I can do the ioh.' I worked till near 4 o'clock before I got on to the problem; then I heard the last tumbler drop Into place, and. turn in the knob. I opened the vault door. 'Keep your face to the vault and lav your weapon n the floor behind you." said tne clerk. I lav not Onlv one rvnIvor nn tha floor, but two, and a knife and a billy besides. I reckon this cave him confi dence, for he told me 1 might go and stand Dy a desk some ten feet awav. I did so, and he went to my light, took it up and turned It on me. 'Go In there and bring me a tin box on a shelf to the right." I did as be said. He opened tne box. took out a fifty dollar bill and tossed it to me. I picked it up and handed it back to him. Somehow I felt ashamed o' takln money from a man who would seep raith with me under the circum stances. 'I don't make any charee for this small service," I remarked. "Tou can make it hot for me if you like." "And it would have been hot for me today if It hadn't been for you. Can you give me the combination?' I called it off, and he wrote it down. "Xow you can get out the wav von came In, and I hope you'll do It safely. It wouldn't do for me to risk lxln' seen leKIn' you out. If you think you d like to break the dishonest;- habit, come and see me here about half past 5 this afternoon." I got out Just as the dawn was be- ginnin' to break and went borne. ''Ellen." 1 said to my wife. "I haven't got uny swag, hut mebhe I got an honest Job." "Oh. Tom!" she easped. "God m-ant that it may be true!" I told her the story, and we both ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. Aw6elahliPr(n!ir!ilinrfni-Aff p-m wwrnuj JU Suni atinfhpFnnifnmrr?fdirfi tirtgUtc SiomacJis antLBowcbof Promofcs DigesIionJOieerful-' ness and RestrnnMin1? npklr Opium.Morphine norMneraL! XMOT NARCOTIC. tapeo!QUDrML'EFmML Pimpkb Sad" jUx.Smim Warm h pit- Aperfect Remedy fwCoTBfliia- Worms jLoitvuisions.revensn- nessandLOSSOFbLEEP. - Facsimile Signature of NEW YOBK. QuArartteed iindertleFooJfll A Exact Copy of Wrapper. ?o IS :i vcit to sUt-p fei iln' better than any ;i:"o r went Into the buslncsr. The ncm uftrtin I called on Hip clerk. nn! lie minveded In gettln me a job I've made an honest livin" ever since. THOMAS J. CHRISTIE A Hallucination. l -... tel.... I.. .. I...... I 1 - t. ia ijm iii a uuii'i uvuroom one morning." he suld. "about half awake when 1 heard a key rattling iu the door. Much to my horror, the door opened, and the maid came in to muke up the room, or at hast so it seemed to me. I tailed out to her to leave, and she did so. All this happened In a minute or less, and I fell asleep agalu. hen I woke up I remember ed the Incident clearly. When ij came to look at the door, however, I fouud that It was nut only locked from the luslde v,i;! the key still In, but that u bolt alMi v.:::-. shot. I was sure that I had seen the mall enter, but when 1 asked her later nltotit It she said that "she had tried the door from the outside and, hearing me call out, had departed. As far ns I can make out. it must haw lieeu a very complete hal lucination u!;out seeing ber. culled nn In my mind in my sleepy condition by my fear that she might enter. I won der if that has happened to many per sons." New York Sun. Spiders That Hunt Fish. There are certain large sea solder two feet from toe to toe. called Collo sendels gigas. that live iu the water and feed entirely iixn tnollusks and worms. The carnivorous wolf spider, nn am phlMoiw inhabitant of the tropical re i;!ons of South America, Is said to pre fer a fish diet, though It is uot averse to eating mire, youug birds and eveu snakes, res-embling In this respect the tuerapnoyldae. or bird catching spiders. of India and (Jiimuslund. some of which equal a rat In size. The eoMiwciideis Is the most formida ble specimen of the spider family lucvftirlug six inchest around the bodv and possessing twelve long, hairy legs. with which It grips its finny pre. II attacks fish cevera' times larger than itself and after' bitlirg them through the back and stinging them to death gluts Itself by sucking the Juices from the bodies of its victims. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years TMf OIHTWII OMMWT, MMf YOMOITT. n n M AM 111 nnn In i UltilliU CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS HELP WANTED WANTED LADIES AND GEN tlcmcn who have a few spare hours; can offer good proposition. Apply Great American Importing Tea Co,, address 571 Commercial' St., Astoria, Ore. ' 4-26-31. FURNITURE OF 6-ROQM HOUSE for sale,-privilege of renting house. Inquire 0. F. Morton or 191 Seventh street. J-22-tf. FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE LOCKSLEY HALL Hotel, Seaside. Or: thU heatitifnl spot under the pines and overlooking the ocean is for sale; best money making property in the West; over 100 rooms; modern in every way. For particulars apply to Mrs. L A. Carlisle on premises. FOR SALE - SM ALL "ROOM I N G house; partly furnished; must be sold at once, parties leaving town. Enquire 1S4 9th street. 4-10-tf. roa juuiT. FOR RENT-TWO FURNISHED rooms for gentlemen. Caotain Ferchan, 330 17th itreet. FOR RE.NT-Furnished houaekeeo. mg and single rooms, 677 Exchange r street. 4-28-St. FOUND. FOUND CARPENTER'S CHARM. I Owner can have same by paying for this ad and proving property. - . i 5-I-3t. CALL FOR WARRANTS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there is money in the treasury to pay all General Fund warrants en doraed prior to June 1, 1907. Inter est ceases after this date. Payable at the office of the (Treasurer, at the Court House. WM. A. SHERMAN. Treasurer of Clatsop County, Oregon. Astoria, Ore., April 25, 1908, 4-25-lOt, JUST A.R RIVED Gold Fish 25c and 35c Each Ilildebrand & Gor Old Bee Hive Bldg. Do You Wear j Shoes ? ' We sell the kind, that wear longest and look the bcit. 9 The Dr. A Reed Cushion Shoe We handle a special line of Loggers' Shoes . Uive,us a triaL S. A. GIMRE GOOD SHOES. 543 Bond St., op. Ross, Iliggins & Co. IQ u 12th St.,' Below Commercial Short Orders and Oysters at All Hours. I he Best the Market Affords Good Service Fresh Oysters always on hand from one pint up. TONNIE THEAUDEAUS. URINARY DISCHARGES BELIEVED IN 24 HOURS Each Can. ""s aule beart (MIDY) the name- jieware tf counterfeit! ; ALL DBtJOOIHTS ' . ,i MENANDWOMEU dlncli.n;!, Inflammation. Irritation, or ula.ratloni OuftrmnUe I tm Hrlfltar.. " or inucou. nieniDranw. . .. n. i 1 .nI ....In. ItHEEVSMSChEMICALCO. gent or poi.onnul. V.t. wr pant iu plain FOR SALE. I.C II I f H II III 11 HOUSE MOVERS. FREDR1CKS0N BROS.-We make a specialty of house moving, car penters, contractor, general Jobbing; prompt attention to all orders. Cor- ucr icntn ana uuane streets. PROFESSIONAL CARD) ATTORNEYS-AT.LAW CHARLES II. ABERCROMBIE Attorncy'-at-Law City Attorney Offices: City Hall JOHN C McCUE Attcrney-at-Law Deputy District Attorney , Page Building S ue 4. HOWARD M. BROWNELL Attorney-at-Law Office with Mr. J. A. Eakin, at 420 Commercal St., Astoria. MASSAGE. DOCTORS PRESCRIBING MAS age. call Oliia Landen. Finnish masseuse, Pythian bldg., Commercial street ' OSTEOPATHS DR. RHODA C. HICKS Osteopath Cffi Maniell Bl Jg. Phone Black 206 5 J Commercial St. Astoria, Ore. DENTISTS DR. VAUGHAN Dentist Pythian, Building, Aitoria, Oregon DR. W. C. LOGAN Dentist Commercial St .Shanahan Bids, BUSINESS DIRECTORY! RESTAURANTS. Oj.poiite Ross, Higgini & Co. Coffee with Pis or Caks 10 Cts. FIRST.CLASS MEALS Regular Meals 15 Cts. and Up. U. B. RESTAURANT. 434 Bond Street Coffee with Pie or Cake, 10 Cts. . First-Class Meals, IS Cts. HOTELS. H0TEL0XF0RD Sixth and Oak Strs., Portland, Ore. A strictly modern hotel In center I of business district; suites with or without private baths, running hot and cold water in every room; plenty of free baths. Rates $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. VICTOR BRANDT, Prop. WINES AND LIQUORS. Eagle Concert Hall (320 Aitor Street) , t Rooms for rent by the day, week, or month Best rates in town. P. A. PETERSON, Prop. FISH MARKET. 77 Ninth "St., near Bond 'Fresh and Salted Fish. Game and Poultry. Groceries, Produce and Fruit imported and Domestic uoods. P. Bakoiitch & Feo, Proprs. Phone Red 2I8J HOT OR COLD olden West Seattle Fisi HMe Tea Just Flight CLOSSET & DEVERS, PORTLAND, ORE. BOAT BUILDER. T. L. Driscoll . BOAT BUILDING AND REPAIR INQ A SPECIALTY. , 22nd and Exchange Street UNDERTAKERS, J. A. (HUlAl'dll & CO.. UiHlortnkor mid Kiulmlnier. lixperlenood I.iulv Asftlsttint W hen DesfrtMl. Cull Promptly Attended Day or. Nlirlit. Tttitoii Udjr. 12th and iMuuieHt ATOHIA. OltE.UON Phone Main 2 111 ' TRANSPORTATION. The "KM Unt I PASSENGERS FREIGHT Steamer Lurline Night Boat for Portland and Way Landings. Leaves Aitoria daily txcept 8unday t 7 p. m. Leavea Portland Daily except Sanaa? t 7 a. m. Quirk Service Excellent Meala Good Berths Landing Aitoria Flavel Wharf. Landing Portland Foot Taylor St J. 1. DAY. A vent. Phone Main 2761. MEDICAL. r",'iLrv-v'1-v-'i' - - -f -r-ft .MiiiTT-" Uoproust4 Success' 4 DR. 6- GEE y THI GREAT , CEUriSX D0CT01 Wbo Is kaavm thronhont the United BUtes on account of Us wonderful leures. No poison or drags usee. Be guana tees to eure catarrh, utlim. inn. ..a throat trouble, rheumatism, Bervountae, stomach, liver and kUney. female com plaints and all nhmnli SUCCESSFUL HOME TREATMENT. xr you cannot call write for symptom blank and circular, lacloslnx 4 cants ta itamps. THE C. GEE WO MEDICIHE CO. 12 First St., Corner Morrison. PORTLAND, OREGON. ' Please mention the Astoriaa.' CONTRACTORS. J. B. Benoit & Son Contractors and Builders. Estimates given. Repairs a Specialty. Phone Red 2413. 893 Commercial St. LAUNDRIES. Those Pleated Bosom Shirts The kind known by dressy men in the summer, are difficult article! to launder nicely. Unless you know just , how to do it, the front pleats won't iron down smooth, and the shirt front will look mttssy. Our New Press Ironer irons them without rolling or stretching. Try it. TROY LAUNDRY, Tenth and Duane. Phone Main 1091 PLUMBERS. PLUMBER Heating Contractor, Tinner . ; ; ' AND Sheet Iron Worker LL WORK GUARANTEED 4 425 Bond Street r txpr..., prep.ia, tor t ItA ... A I. Af. Circular mu! un rcuuMt